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Sami Schalk
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The idea that we won’t need mental healthcare when we “fix society” is anti-revolutionary & ableist. You think disabled folks won’t exist in your post-liberation world? You think people will not still experience grief, loss, or heartbreak & need support to get through it? 🙄
Again mental healthcare includes things like support groups, pharmaceuticals, community support, as well as more traditional counseling & therapy.
Our inability to image mental healthcare outside of oppression & the capitalist medical industrial complex is part of the problem. We need healers & healthcare workers who can envision radically different futures and help us build toward it.
*imagine

Stress/rage tweeting indiscriminately this AM.
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Fat girl thread. CW: dieting

Sometimes I don’t realize I’m hungry until I’m already pretty in need of food. I tend to go from “I could eat” to “If I don’t eat something right now I will stab you” in less than ten minutes. Today I realized one reason why I’m like this.
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Sami Schalk
@DrSamiSchalk
Woke up to a Google alert about this new review of #BodymindsReimagined in American Literary History by Rebecca Wanzo (@rawreader) & I am just so honored & amazed.

I’ll share my favorite quotes below! Happy to send folks a copy who don’t have access!

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Sami Schalk
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Hey @nicolebyer, I love you so much, but DeRay is definitely talking a lot of shit & sometimes being shitty AF to your fans on your IG who are unhappy with his appearance. It would be cool if you told him to chill the fuck out.
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